Comments on: Network hardware purchasing: Biggest hurdleshttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/network-hardware-purchasing-biggest-hurdles/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:21:55 +0000hourly1By: ToddN2000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/network-hardware-purchasing-biggest-hurdles/#comment-141936
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:03:06 +0000#comment-141936Approval by far. It’s always who’s holding the purse strings. In a slow economy it is even tougher to get the equipment that is needed.
]]>By: mrdennyhttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/network-hardware-purchasing-biggest-hurdles/#comment-66803
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:09:59 +0000#comment-66803Hardware selection is always easy. Approvals are always the hard part.
]]>By: blankreghttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/network-hardware-purchasing-biggest-hurdles/#comment-66788
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:10:29 +0000#comment-66788I usually find that selection is the easy part. Having worked with many vendors, over waaay too many years, you get very familiar with the capabilities of the equipment, and you generally stick to what you know will work.

The approvals process is a real pain.

You are passing the project over to bean-counters who have no technical knowledge, and have some idiot saying things like ‘but this manufacturer also makes routers and they are $200 cheaper than these’. Then you have to explain that although they are cheaper, you may as well have a toaster, because it doesn’t do what you need it to. And do all of that without sounding too patronising.

Eventually they give in, and the purchase goes through, but you know they think you are wasting the company’s valuable cash reserves 😉